FirstKey Lending hires new managing director

Opens new Los Angeles office

New York-based FirstKey Lending hired Dennis Cisterna as managing director to help lead the opening of the lender’s new West Coast office in Los Angeles.

Most recently, Cisterna worked at a national real estate capital advisory firm Johnson Capital, where he most served as senior vice president and co-head of the firm’s Opportunistic Finance division.

“Dennis is a strong addition to FirstKey’s deep bench of mortgage professionals and will be instrumental in our efforts to meet the unique needs of entrepreneurial borrowers as the company continues its steady growth in this exciting space,” commented Randy Reiff, CEO of FirstKey Lending.

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